At 13:08 -0600 11/1/02, Tab Trepagnier wrote:

I understand what you're saying and largely agree.  But in TSM's case that
would be the x.x.0.0 release.  And history has shown those to be pretty
much uniformly bad.

It's the reported poor quality of the maintenance releases intended to fix
THOSE problems - the x.x.x.0 releases - that are the real shame.

I guess the solution is to avoid any release with a dot in it.

Ten days ago, we asked IBM for a recommendation on which release we
should upgrade to, since it seems to be universally agreed that our
4.2.2.0 is not a good place to be. So far, they haven't been able to
recommend a good release.
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